blackburn

Greetings all, I return once more. Took a bit of a walk today and ended up in Blackburn, opposite the old mill site. The Star Papermill, and its smaller cousin whose name I do not remember, was a major producer of paper from 1879 until it was shut down in 2009. In 2012 the buildings were...

Bold Street Fabric Mill Had this one pinned thanks to @UrbandonedTeam for a few months with the hopes it it resembling parts of other small inconspicuous mills nestled into residential areas and somehow being unnoticed and therefore untouched, full of dated machinery and the likes of. The...

Background. The River Blakewater rises on the moors above Blackburn as the Knuzden Brook before becoming the Blakewater and giving its name to the town. It flows approximately parallel to the Leeds and Liverpool canal, the larger blue ‘river’ running across the bottom right on the map below...

I first came across this drain last year while walking along the River Blakewater, which runs through Blackburn. It’s an obvious, easy one so I assumed it must have been done before. But I can’t find any pictures so it’s duly christened FU since even for a drain it’s pretty pointless - just...

Hi guys i am in Blackburn Lancashire, me and a group of friends are looking to go exploring some old buildings, pretty much anything could anyone help me with some locations please ? Doesn’t have to be blackburn as we all drive so ideally anywhere within 30 miles of Blackburn, thanks in advance...

Imperial Mill Engine-House History of the mill: Imperial Mill was a textiles/cotton mill built in 1901. The mill was bought by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in 1929 after the war as Lancashire never regained its markets and the independent mills were struggling. The production period...

last stretch of the blackburn brook was for me the best part of it picking up from my last explore at the bottom of fife street the brook runs next to the old railway track ( now a cycle path ) around the back of the old gasometers and discharges in to the river don at meadowhall the brook is...

Still on with the blackburn brook theme i had some photos from last year and a couple of other sections i dont think have been covered on here before looked interesting so decided to check them out , So in order from upstream to downstream ive put them in order thats not how they were explored...

out with the dog enjoying splendid isolation and had my camera and torch with me ,have been in these before there no way new only the addition of some new artwork graffiti has changed the view from the foot bridge a large chunk of land gives an idea of the size of the old mill looking over the...

With the weather being dry and mild i wanted to get out and do something ,after trying ( and failing ) to make any further progress with isolation this was my sort of plan B i had read reports before on here but haddnt really thought i would be doing it today so was more of a nosy come full...

Higher Elementary School We first noticed this place in early 2018. I have no idea what we were doing in Blackburn, probably passing through to Burnley, which shares the same levels of Northern grime. The fresh boards were a welcome sign and a quick scan on the forums showed us that the...

I have recently conquered this from end to end (Chapletown-Meadowhall) after @tarkovsky uncovered the furthest upstream and previously unexplored section which had been coming up with too much h2s in the past. These shots have been taken over several months and I've included some local features...

1. ‘Dark & Long’ This is a previously unreported section of Blackburn Brook, a small culverted river in the North of Sheffield. I’m calling it ‘Dark & Long’ after the Underworld song, which is a recommended addition to any dra1nz playlist. (I considered ‘Born Slippy’ but I actually narrowly...

Star PaperMill Chimney Climb. Visited with Agent Smith and Captain Ginger Beard. More info on the paper mill and only a limited degree of info on the chimney in this report. http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/star-paper-mill-blackburn-dec-2015.t102105 And a link to the local press on it going...

Star Paper Mill/Sappi Paper Mill, Feniscowles Blackburn Jan 2016 Visited with Mr pink History The former Star Paper Mill, Feniscowles, closed on the 12th November 2008 after more than a century of paper making.It opened in 1875 replacing the earlier Roddlesworth Paper Mill at Abbey...